STAAR Review

Strategies

100

What is the first thing you should do when you begin a passage?

What is reading the passage all the way through?

200

What should you do when you come across a word that you do not know?

What is using the dictionary?

300

What strategy are you supposed to use when answering questions?

What is proving your answer?

400

What should you do to your scratch paper when you first get it?

What is folding it into eight squares and getting it ready to answer questions?

500

What is the second and third thing you should do when you are completing a passage and questions?

What is reading the questions over and rereading the passage?

Genre

100

This book is about people that can fly and talk to animals. What genre is this?

What is fantasy fiction?

200

This genre uses dialogue and stage directions. What genre is this?

What is drama?

300

In poetry, what is the person whose perspective the poem is from?

What is the speaker?

400

Steph Curry wrote a book about his life. What genre is this?

What is autobiography?

500

This genre contains information that is true and meant to inform someone.

What is informational?

Review

100

True or false: The speaker and the poet are always the same.

What is false?

200

What does PIE'ED stand for? 

What is Persuade, Inform, Entertain, Explain, and Describe? What is author's purpose?

300

When something that is not human is given human like characteristics, what is that called?

What is personification?

400

When you use your background knowledge and what is in the text to make a conclusion, it is called...

What is making an inference?

500

The narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of ALL the characters. What is this point of view known as?

What is 3rd person omniscient? 

REEL RATE

100

Is reel rate the short constructed response or extended constructed response?

What is extended constructed response?

200

What should you start your first paragraph with? 

What is hook?

300

What are the three types of hooks you can choose from?

What is question, statement, and inform?

400

What all should be included in your first paragraph?

What is hook and restating question & answer?

500

What is the second paragraph called?

What is bait?

RATE

100

How long should a RATE response be?

What is one paragraph or 4-5 sentences?

200

What does the R and A stand for?

What is restate the question and answer?

300

What does the T stand for?

What is text evidence?

400

What should you do for E in rate?

What is explain how the text evidence proves your answer?

500

Oops, tricked ya... What should be in the last paragraph of REEL rate?

What is you should restate your answer one more time and connect back to the text?